Terms
& Conditions of Web Site Use
www.bibritain.co.uk
("the Service") is an online information
and communications service. By accessing or using
the Service, you agree to be bound by the terms and
conditions set forth below. If you do not wish to
be bound by these terms and conditions, you may not
access or use the Service. LabMedia, the administrators
of this service, reserves the right to modify this
Agreement at any time and such modifications shall
be effective immediately upon posting of the modified
agreement. You agree to review the Agreement periodically
to be aware of such modifications and your continued
access or use of the Service shall be deemed your
conclusive acceptance of the modified Agreement.
The use of information and links provided on this
site is at your own risk. While care has been taken
to ensure the accuracy of the data and advice, this
is no warranty or representation express or implied
by LabMedia or any other person giving their opinions
and/or advice in respect of the site as to the accuracy,
reliability or uninterrupted use of the site and they
shall not, jointly or severally, be liable for any
loss, injury, damage, costs or expense arising from
any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect,
delay in operation or transmission, computer virus,
communication line failure, breach of contract, tort,
negligence, defamation, copyright infringement, breach
of intellectual property right or any other cause
of action.
Submitters are solely responsible for their own submissions,
and submitters agree not to include any content in
their submissions that is unlawful, libellous, defamatory,
grossly offensive, dangerous or false, or any content
that is protected by copyright or other intellectual
property right, without first obtaining permission
of the copyright owner or copyright holder.
The submitter agrees to defend and hold LabMedia and
any other person who give their opinions and/or advice
on the site from and against all claims, losses, damages,
costs and expenses, including legal fees on an indemnity
basis, arising out of the use of the site.
LabMedia shall have the right, but not the obligation,
to monitor the content on the site, including chat
rooms and forums, and LabMedia shall have the right
to remove or delete any material that LabMedia, in
its sole discretion, finds to be in violation of any
applicable laws, codes, rules or regulations. LabMedia
shall have the right to remove any material submitted
to or posted on the Service. Without limitation to
the foregoing, LabMedia shall have the right to remove
any material that LabMedia, in its sole discretion,
finds to be in violation of the provisions hereof
or otherwise objectionable or inappropriate without
having to assign any reason therefor.
The materials on the site are copyrighted by the respective
copyright holders and may be downloaded and printed
for personal use only. Permission to print or electronically
reproduce any document or graphic in whole or in part
for any reason is expressly prohibited, unless prior
written consent is obtained from the respective copyright
holder(s).
Member Access and User Subscriptions
Access to the web site is via a user subscription,
available as both a free subscription, and a paid
subscription. Free subscription users will have limited
access to some sections of the web site. Paid subscription
users will have full access to all sections of the
web site.
Paid
subscription packages are available as 30 day packages,
90 day packages, 12 month packages and as 'Never-Expires'*
packages, at the rates advertised throughout the web
site.
*'Never-Expire'
packages are charged at a discounted 3 year subscription
rate and are valid for a period of 3 years. The full
access subscription then becomes complimentary.
The
same Terms and Conditions of Service apply to all
users of the site, regardless of their subscription
status.
User Submitted Content Policy
LabMedia, as the providers and administrators of this
Service. ("us", "our" or "we")
provide tools that allow users ("you") of
this web site to interact with other users of this
web site by posting, viewing, commenting on, or participating
in web logs, discussion forums, chat rooms, digital
content sharing, and/or other such features (collectively,
"Community Features" or "Community").
This Policy for User-Submitted Content ("Policy")
describes the terms and conditions that are applicable
to your use of the Community Features, including the
submission of any content ("Content") that
you provide to a Community. This Policy applies to
any web site on which said content may be posted,
including, but not limited to, www.bibritain.co.uk
("web site").
By
submitting content to this web site, you acknowledge
that the Terms and Conditions stated in this policy
apply to your interactions with any web site community
and that good and valuable consideration has been
provided to you. If you do no agree with these Terms
and Conditions, do not submit content to this web
site.
Content
Submissions
All
Content to the Community and the comments or opinions
expressed therein are those of their respective contributors
and do not necessarily represent the views of LabMedia,
its owners, management, or employees. LabMedia is
not responsible and expressly disclaims all liability
for the content of any contribution submitted by users
of the Community. Without limiting the foregoing,
LabMedia will not be held liable for Content that
may infringe a third party’s copyright, trademark,
or other intellectual property right.
The
nature of some Content may be offensive, harmful,
or inaccurate, and in some cases may be mislabelled
or deceptively labelled. You agree that you are fully
responsible for any Content that you submit to the
Community. Without limiting the foregoing, LabMedia
reserves the right, but is not obligated, to monitor
all submissions and exercise editorial control over
all such submissions, including without limitation
the right to edit, take down or remove any Content.
LabMedia is not responsible for any failure to monitor,
review, edit and/or delete any Content submitted to
the web site through any Community Feature.
All
Content are deemed to be provided on a non-confidential
basis. If you make a Contribution to a Community,
you understand and agree that we may publish your
Contribution in its entirety, as an edited version,
or not at all, in our sole discretion. We may remove,
alter, or otherwise edit Content that we deem inappropriate
for any reason, in our sole discretion. You bear all
privacy and other risks associated with using the
Community Features of this web site. Accordingly,
you should avoid posting personal information such
as home address or telephone number.
You
understand and agree that your username may be posted
along with your Content. To that extent, you do not
have the same degree of privacy or confidentiality
as you may receive in other areas of the web site.
Content
Ownership and Use
You
should submit all Content in electronic format through
the web site. Any Content submitted to or uploaded
through the web site shall become the property of
LabMedia. We have no obligation to retain any Content
sent to us. While LabMedia may use the Content, it
also has the right to erase, delete, throw away, dispose
of or destroy any Content sent to us in any format
without notice.
LabMedia
will decide in its sole discretion what Content to
use or not use. LabMedia makes no promise or guarantee
that any Content submitted will be used in any manner.
However, if Content is used, you grant LabMedia (which
includes any and all affiliates, agents, contractors,
licensees, sub-licensees, subsidiaries or any third
party who obtains the Content from LabMedia) a worldwide,
in perpetuity, non revocable, royalty free, assignable,
sub-licensable right to use the Content, in any and
all manners as determined solely by LabMedia. For
purposes of illustration but not limitation, such
uses may be for internal purposes, posting on a web
site, and marketing, advertising, and promotion of
products, merchandise, goods or services in any and
all media whether now known or hereafter invented.
You will have no right of review and will not be paid
any additional consideration or fees as a result of
the usage. You hereby warrant and represent that you
have the right to grant this license on your own behalf
and on the behalf of any person who appears in the
Content as well.
Further,
you hereby irrevocably in perpetuity, assign any and
all rights (Intellectual Property and other) to the
Content including copyrights which you or any third
party might hold to LabMedia. You understand that
by the grant of such rights, LabMedia is considered
the owner of all rights in the Content and may do
what it desires with the Content without any further
consent being required from you or any third party.
You warrant and represent that you are the copyright
owner of the Content or have acquired the necessary
rights from the copyright owner to grant this assignment
of right and that the consent of any other person
or entity is not required. Furthermore, by granting
any of the rights set out above, the rights of any
other person or entity are not being violated.
You understand that LabMedia is relying on your representations
and warranties. As such, in the event of any claim
of any kind or law suit or other action by yourself
or any third party taken against LabMedia, or any
third party using the Content with the permission
of LabMedia, based on our or any such third party’s
use of the Content and/or a claimed breach of the
representations and warranties you make in this Agreement
(whether said claim is true or not or whether said
claim is successful or not), you will be solely responsible
for all costs, damages, judgments and expenses (including
reasonable attorney fees) which LabMedia or any third
party using the Content with LabMedia permission incurs
as a result of such a claim or action.
Privacy Policy
LabMedia is commited to your privacy. The following
discloses our information gathering and dissemination
practices for this website: www.bibritain.co.uk.
Information is collected when you sign up for a service
that we provide. We may use customer contact information
from the registration form to send the user information
about our company and promotional material from our
carefully selected partners. Users may opt-out of
receiving future communications from us at any time
by contacting us with an opt-out request. Your contact
information and personal data is never released to
our partners or advertisers. Demographic and profile
data collected at our site is used to tailor the visitor's
experience at our site. By knowing a little about
our users, we are able to deliver more relevant content
and advertisements, and hence a better service, to
you. Any demographic and profile data is disclosed
only as aggregated user statistics (eg. 50% of our
users are male) in order to describe our services
to prospective partners, advertisers, and other third
parties, and for lawful purposes.
We also run contests on our site in which we ask contestants
for their contact information (like e-mail addresses)
and demographic information (like age). We may use
contact data from our contests to send users information
about our company and promotional material from our
carefully selected partners. Your contact information
may also be used to contact you when necessary, for
instance, to inform you about the procedures for the
collection of your prize. Your contact information
and personal data may also be released to the co-sponsors
of the contests to facilitate the collection of prizes.
Other than for the purposes described above, your
contact information and personal data is never released
to our partners or advertisers. Any demographic and
profile data is disclosed only as aggregated user
statistics to prospective partners, advertisers, and
other third parties, and for lawful purposes.
Data exchanged between ourselves and our members across
our network is stored and monitored for the purpose
of providing quality control over our product and
to ensure that our service is not being used to conduct
illegal activity that may or may not be a threat to
our web site, our company and/or our member base.
Cookies
As part of offering and providing customisable and
personalised services, we use "cookies"
to store and track information. A cookie is a small
amount of data that is sent to your browser from a
web server and stored on your computer's hard drive.
"Cookies" assign a unique number to the
user that has no meaning outside the assigning site.
If you do not want information to be collected through
the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in
most browsers that allows you to deny or accept the
cookie feature. You will be required to accept "cookies"
if you are prompted to log-in or are using a customisable
service on our site. Advertising networks that serve
ads onto our site may also use their own cookies.
We do not control the use of "cookies" or
the resulting information by these networks.
Forums
You should note that any personally identifiable information
(eg e-mail addresses) that you disclose on forums
could be collected and used by third parties to contact
you or send unsolicited messages. We do not have control
over these activities.
Business Risk
If your use of the service, or your future use of
the service, is deemed to be a risk to the providers
of the service and/or to the users of the service,
your use of the service may be restricted, removed
and/or denied.
Corrections & Updates
You may change or modify information that you provided
to us previously by contacting us.
Security
While we strive to protect your personal information,
we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information
that you transmit to us, and you do so at your own
risk.
Links to other Sites
www.bibritain.co.uk also contains links to other internet
sites that have separate privacy and data collection
practices, independent of us. We are not responsible
and cannot be held liable for the privacy practices
or the content of such internet sites.